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This methodology models the emissions produced by a home in the UK. It is based on a cut-down version of RdSAP and was developed for the UK government's ActOnCO2 calculator. Information on insulation and renewable savings was provided by EST.

To make a calculation, the following parameters must be set:

age must be one of "pre 1930", "post 1995" or "1930-1995"

numberOfBedrooms must a number from 0 to 6

heatingType must be set to one of the valid heatingType parameters for the specified fuel in the dataset at /home/heating/uk/heatingTypes.

All other parameters do not have to set explicitly. The hasNoRenewables parameter defaults to true and all other parameters relating to renewables will be ignored unless it is set to false. The same is true of the hasNoInsulation parameter and other insulation-related parameters.

If calculations are stored using profiles, the number of people in the household can be specified using the profile metadata parameter peopleInHousehold. If so, this value will be used to determine the energy used for water heating, otherwise water heating will be determined the numberOfBedrooms value.

Also in the case of calculations stored using profiles, in addition to the returned kgCO₂ value, the algorithm sets spaceHeatingCO₂ and waterHeatingCO₂ parameters in units of kgCO₂ per year. In some cases (e.g. coal open fires), the algorithm will assume that the water heating is electric and it will set isWaterHeatingElectric to true. The algorithm will set solarHotWaterEnergySaved and renewableElectricitySavedCO₂ in units of kWh per year if the relevant parameters are set to true.

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	LFS06T266EKM	detached bungalow, biomass
	4G5DJK8P42U1	detached bungalow, coal
	69NKWBQ56D2V	detached bungalow, electricity
	APBO7P6OFF9C	detached bungalow, gas
	VJL2XWP45M5D	detached bungalow, lpg
	0ATVNGSLR8RF	detached bungalow, oil
	HD5JF3BSCKVM	detached house, biomass
	0J43RPO9SJRO	detached house, coal
	8XMEHPFIMZIG	detached house, electricity
	F656YAV7KYX7	detached house, gas
	N1HI6PIAAZEU	detached house, lpg
	DI203JI40XI2	detached house, oil
	0NHOQP3SWME1	end-terrace house, biomass
	KUS1PPM56CA0	end-terrace house, coal
	7YUISM6Y7I0W	end-terrace house, electricity
	PFP7IT57GOAW	end-terrace house, gas
	2VXXYURG8Z1N	end-terrace house, lpg
	CTFHMGKH231Z	end-terrace house, oil
	EF4X01JK7DXA	flat, biomass
	S6R6VP25DQSF	flat, coal

Name: Heating_uk

Full path: /home/heating/uk

Parent Category: Heating

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Provenance: RdSAP,EST

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